How to Sync with iTunes – iPhone

You can set iTunes to sync any or all of the following:

• Contacts—names, phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, and more

• Calendars—appointments and events

• Email account settings

• Webpage bookmarks

• Notes (requires Mac OS X version 10.5.7 on a Mac)

• Ringtones

• Music and audiobooks

• Photos

• Podcasts

• Movies, TV shows, and music videos

• Applications downloaded from the iTunes Store

You can adjust sync settings whenever iPhone is connected to your computer.

Ringtones, music, audiobooks, podcasts, video content, and applications are synced from your iTunes library. If you don’t already have content in iTunes, the iTunes Store (available in some countries) makes it easy to preview and download content to iTunes. You can also add music to your iTunes library from your CDs. To learn about iTunes and the iTunes Store, open iTunes and choose Help > iTunes Help.

Contacts, calendars, notes, and webpage bookmarks are synced with applications on your computer. Contacts and calendars are synced both ways between your computer and iPhone. New entries or changes you make on iPhone are synced to your computer, and vice versa. Notes and webpage bookmarks are also synced both ways. Photos can be synced from an application or from a folder.

Email account settings are synced only from your computer’s email application to iPhone. This allows you to customize your email accounts on iPhone without affecting email account settings on your computer.

NOTE: You can also set up email accounts directly on iPhone. See Setting Up Accounts.

Purchases you make on iPhone in the iTunes Store or the App Store are synced back to your iTunes library. You can also purchase or download content and applications directly from the iTunes Store on your computer, and then sync them to iPhone.

You can set iPhone to sync with only a portion of what’s on your computer. For example, you might want to sync only a group of contacts from your address book, or only unwatched video podcasts.

IMPORTANT: You should be logged in to your own computer user account before connecting iPhone.

Set up iTunes syncing:

1. Connect iPhone to your computer, and open iTunes (if it doesn’t open automatically).

2. In iTunes, select iPhone in the sidebar.

3. Configure the sync settings in each of the settings panes.

4. Click Apply in the lower-right corner of the screen.

   By default, “Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected” is selected.

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